Bore is situated in the plains and is a relatively recent village. It belongs to the community of Koundou. Many of the families of the rockface came to this village in order to commit agriculture. Meanwhile, waterwells have been made and the population increases rapidly here.
The school at Bore classifies in the series of school buildings of Ghama and of Soban. They belong to the first schools where we created only 3 classes, and where, at the same time, we committed ourselves to the construction of housing for teaching staff. Initially many children walked to the rockface (some 11 kilometers!), or they didn’t attend school at all. The start-up of the schools here is a further extension of our activities in the plains. In the future, this might ask for somewhat different buildings. Anyhow, it is clear that they will not be positioned any more in the somewhat more sensitive Unesco area along the rockface.
The school with its compressed earth stones blends magnificently with the surroundings. The winds here blows far more, and that’s the reason why we decided in first instance to not making the windows opening and to apply only blinds. Now, and meanwhile four years later we did observe that really very little maintenance is needed to façades, windows and doors. In the meantime we went further on thinking about the architecture, the schoolterrain, the matching with the landscape, more ventilation and other roof-shapes (have a look, for example, at Balaguina or at Gangaroubouro).
